Qiaojie Village is a thousand-year-old village with the reputation of "eight generations and one product". It is the birthplace of Yan Song. He lived like this for decades after being dismissed from office in his youth and old age. Now it is a famous historical and cultural village in Jiangxi Province and a traditional village in China.
Yan Song was born in the 16th year of Xianzong Chenghua (1480). He experienced the five emperors of Ming Dynasty all his life, and was in charge of state affairs for 20 years during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. He can be called a "tumbler" in politics. Yan Song died in the forty-fifth year of Sejong Jiajing (1566) at the age of 86. In ancient times, it was a miracle that he could live to this age.
Yan Song entered a private school at the age of 5, was rated as a child prodigy at the age of 8, and was promoted at the age of 19. At the age of 26, he joined imperial academy as a waiter, joined the cabinet at the age of 63, and returned to his hometown at the age of 83 to "sell sweet potatoes" (write down the knowledge points quickly). He spent 40 years in Qiaojie Village, Fenyi County.
When I entered the ancient village, I was eager to see Yan Song's home first. According to the signs along the way, I passed several Gu Xiang in the village. There is a glass room in the middle of the village. Did Yan Song follow the fashion in the Ming Dynasty?
No, no, no, the outer glass is a protective layer added by the cultural relics department. The focus is on the inside, but there is nothing in it, just a broken wall two meters high.
I can't imagine that this is the birthplace of Yan Song and Zhu Ruitang, and the place of enlightenment education.
This house was not built by Yan Song, but by his ancestors, with a history of more than 600 years. In those years, there was a beautiful bamboo forest in front of the house, and Yan Song wrote an article about it-The Story of Jolie Garden. Unfortunately, at present, only this half of the wall remains in Jolie Hall, and bamboo forest has been occupied to build a house.
On this broken wall more than two meters high, there is a century-old mystery that has not been solved so far. There is a bust of an elephant sculpture on the wall. Because it was taken by a mobile phone through the glass, it is not clear, but it is very vivid when you look closely with your eyes. An elephant rushed in from the outside, and just entered half of its body, its legs and trunk were vividly displayed, which was beyond the reach of ordinary folk artists.
As we all know, there are no elephants in Jiangxi. Most villagers have never seen an elephant in their lives, and there are no pictures or sculptures of elephants in local houses. Then why is there an elephant sculpture in Yan Song's former residence? Is this related to Yan Song being attacked by an elephant in the middle of the night?
Explain that after Emperor Jiajing moved the capital to Xiyuan, a new regulation was issued, and cabinet assistants must work in shifts and be ready to be summoned at any time. In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Yan Song was on duty on February 15th. Suddenly, an elephant rushed into the room, roared around the bed and stamped its feet. Yan Song was scared to think about Crossing the Han River (a poem by Cheng Yichuan). After a long time, the elephant man came to take the elephant away, and a false alarm finally passed. The question is how the elephant got into the palace and the duty room, where did the ouchi guards go, and what if an assassin came? That night, Yan Song wrote a poem, "Auspicious Entering the Room": Living alone, encountering an elephant, suddenly entering the room and ringing around the bed; I've tasted more dangers in my life, and it's not surprising that something goes wrong. As fierce as a roaring monarch, he just held his breath and sat in the curtain; Jiang Zhou was fearless several times and remembered Master Cheng. From the poem he wrote, it can be seen that this incident has greatly stimulated him. Is this elephant picture specially molded on the wall of the former residence when Yan Song rebuilt Zhu Ruitang several years later? Hundreds of years later, the elephant picture on the wall of Yan Song's former residence is still puzzling.
Qiaojie Ancient Village can visit far more than Yan Song's ancestral home, as well as ancient buildings such as Yanshi Ancestral Hall, Shidetang, Fanbaotang, Doctor Hall, Yushidi, Jinshi, Kejiadi and Liuting. These ancient buildings are three steps, and magpies gather in nests. Their decorations are all carved dragons and painted phoenixes, antique.
Yanshi Ancestral Hall is the largest ancestral hall in the village. The ancient ancestral temple was burned down as early as the Cultural Revolution. The rebuilt ancestral temple is painted with gold, tall and majestic, and the main hall is dedicated to the memorial tablet of Yan Zu.
Yan's Ancestral Hall, built by a spring, is a rare treasure trove of geomantic omen. Every plaque hanging in the ancestral temple in Yan Song tells the story of the Yan Song family.
Qiaojie Village is an ancient village with profound historical and cultural heritage. There are many ancestral halls, with more than 20 original ones. Each hall has its own unique structure, and still retains 10. On the west side of Yanshi Ancestral Hall, there is an ancestral hall called Zhupo Gongci, also called Yuqing Hall, which means "accumulate goodness and celebrate, make children serve the country".
Above the gate of Zhupo Gongci, there are two plaques, one is Zhupo Gongci, and the other is Fang Bojia. On both sides of the outer wall, there is a couplet left by Zhu Shi, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, when he visited Qiaojie Village: the water is long and continuous; The peak is beautiful and full of jade trees.
Zhu Pogong Temple (Jade Qing Temple) was not built by Yan Song, but by Yan Zhonggong, the ancestor of the ninth generation. It has a history of more than 600 years. After three overhauls and antique renovation in recent years, it has been restored to its original appearance before 1.949. The progressive hall and progressive hall have basically retained their original appearance.
Before 1944, there were as many as 124 plaques in Yuqing Hall. There are a large number of cultural relics left over from the Yongle period in the Ming Dynasty, including the original works of Jiajing Yubi, Shi Kefa, Liu Tongxun, Yuan Shikai, Dai and other historical celebrities, such as Fan Hou's Mansion, Prime Minister's Temple, Shi Lian and Imperial Patent. Today, when I walked into the Zhupo Temple, I was fortunate to see many plaques hanging, one of which was "Competing with Japan", and there was a story behind it. At that time, after the fall of Yan Song, his son was killed, and his grandson Yan was sent to exile in Dingyuan County, Anhui Province. Not far from the Yangtze River, the enemy often comes to plunder the people. Yan made great contributions to helping the country fight against the Japanese invaders. At Zuo Du's suggestion, Yang Lian awarded him a plaque of "Defeating the Japanese Invaders". It can be seen that the court at that time did not completely deny its descendants because their fathers and ancestors were guilty.
Yan Song donated three bridges to his hometown, one of which was built on the Yuanhe River and called Wannian Bridge. After the completion of the 1588 bridge, he wrote an inscription at the request of the villagers. The next year, the magistrate of a county carved it on a stone tablet and stood at the bridge. 1985 The dam built made Fairy Lake, but it flooded the bridge. 1986, the water level of Fairy Lake drops, and Wannian Bridge emerges from the water. Later generations of Yan family salvaged this 2.5-ton stone tablet and moved it to the side in front of the ancestral hall.
Although Yi 'an Ancestral Temple is not prominent, it is also an indispensable existence. Also known as the praise hall, it feels that the ancestral halls in the village have adopted an nickname.
Qiyuantang is also a public temple in the village, and the gold-plated plaque directly above it is very eye-catching.
Fourth Uncle sits on the threshold of Shaoquan Temple. One is smoking, two are playing with mobile phones and one is in a daze.
Qiaojie Village has been farming and teaching for generations. In Longfu Village, I saw a Qianyang Academy with a small courtyard in front. Every time the private school ends, it must be full of hilarity of extremely young people.
However, in this small village, the imperial examination continued to expand from the 13th year of Yongle (14 15) to the first year of the Apocalypse (162 1), with seven scholars successively. As Yan Song and great-grandson Yan Yun are close friends, as many as eight people were awarded the titles of first-class officials or imperial seals, so the village has the reputation of "one product and eight generations". Yan, an anti-Japanese hero with outstanding military achievements, has also emerged here, and Yan, the first martial artist in Jiangxi Province.
The lanes in the village are criss-crossed and reticulate, connecting many ancestral halls and houses built in Ming and Qing Dynasties, including ten ancestral halls, nine mansions and twenty-nine furniture halls, which are very dazzling in western Jiangxi.
There are also many modern farmhouses, and some doors are hung with the most popular political slogan of "carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory" in the last century.
Surprisingly, there is a two-story villa mixed in the school house in Jiangxi. Because of its age, there is no contradiction with the surrounding buildings.
There is an ancient street in front of the village, which was formed in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. It is the traffic artery between Anfu County and Fenyi County, and the herringbone road paved with blue bricks on the ground still exists today.
Just a few days before the Spring Festival, the descendants of Yan Song, who worked outside, dragged their heavy suitcases back to her roots.
The flourishing ancient camphor tree group in Song and Yuan Dynasties is another scenic spot in Qiaojie Village, located 2 kilometers in the suburb of Fenyi County. In the 1970s, there were more than 40 ancient camphor trees in the village. Later, it was cut in half to build a railway and a new house, and now there are only more than 20 trees left.
The oldest is the "King of Zhangshu" in the south of the village. It has a history of nearly a thousand years, with a tree diameter of 9.2 meters. It needs several adults to hug, and the crown area is nearly 1 mu.
There is a wall next to the ancient camphor tree, and the iron gate is locked. Through the iron gate, we can see that inside the wall is the tomb of Yan Song's ancestors, and Yan Song's great-grandfather, grandfather and his father are buried, but he was not buried in the village after his death.
There are four marble horses in front of the tomb, and you can still see the prestige of that year.